Social investment is an umbrella term that brings together diverse categories of funders who are united by their intent to achieve social and/or environmental impact.
Broadly, social investments include financial and non-financial support deployed via venture philanthropy, impact investment (with a focus on investing for impact) and socially responsible investing by corporates.
Social investment methodologies have proven to be powerful ways to create sustainable and scalable social and environmental impact by enabling diverse social investors to collaborate for greater impact towards achievement of the SDGs.
In order to achieve social impact, collaboration across many different types of capital and investment strategies are needed. We call this the “continuum of capital”.
Social investors all seek social returns with varying expectations of financial returns.
